Bin Li

Biography

Bin Li is a film restorer and analogue colour grader, working at Haghefilm laboratory in the Netherlands since 2014. He specialises in restoring unusual and highly damaged film materials, as well as recreating historical film colours. He was responsible for the restoration and digitisation of two big 68mm Biograph projects from the British Film Institute and the Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam. He restored and digitised some of the very unique and damaged Étienne-Jules Marey materials, ranging from 26mm to 90mm, for La Cinémathèque française, Paris. Besides film restoration, Bin Li has also identified hundreds of lost films, including Love, Life and Laughter (1923), one of the BFI’s most wanted “lost films”.